From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T22:51:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26013] Re: positive

Tobias Reif wrote:

> Thanks; now i did
>
> def not_neg n
>   if n <= 0
>     n = 0
>   end
>   n
> end
>
> Tobi
>

If you want to be able to do it in the form you'd asked about before, try:

class Numeric
 def pos
   if self>0 then self else 0 end
 end
end

10.pos -> 10
-10.pos -> 0


  -- Mark